Students and postdocs recipients of CSDC grants – 2018-2019

The CSDC Grant and Awards Program is designed to promote new collaborations among its members and students, particularly new interdisciplinary initiatives, to pilot new ideas and projects and to support student research and training.

Method training grant

The CSDC awarded ten Methods Training Grants. The CSDC supports intensive summer methods training programs, as long as these methods courses are not taught at our partner universities or other local institutions during the fall or winter semester.

Four CSDC Methods Grant Awardees received also an ICPSR award.

Awardees in bold also received a full tuition award from the ICPSR or of its partners.

Research Grant

One of the CSDC’s central missions is to provide an enriched training environment for graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows. These research grants are meant to facilitate thesis related research or knowledge mobilization ideas, related to the research axes of the CSDC, that are not eligible or suitable for funding from other sources.

The CSDC awarded 4 Research Grants to Students. These research grants are meant to facilitate thesis related research or knowledge mobilization ideas, related to the research axes of the CSDC, that are not eligible or suitable for funding from other sources.

• Audrey Gagnon (Concordia University, supervisor: Antoine Bilodeau): “Pathways to strong anti-immigration views and activism in Quebec”. Amount: $ 1,000.00
• Samuel Mèrineau (Université de Montréal, supervisor: Roxane de la Sablonnière) : « D’une identité a priori à une identité a posteriori: vers une approche bayésienne des processus dynamiques de l’intégration du cannabis dans l’identité de Canadiens et Québécois ». Amount: $ 1,000.00
• Colin Scott (McGill University, supervisor: Dietlind Stolle): “Intergroup Dynamics of Religious Accommodation: Religious Symbols and the Evaluation of Visible Minority Candidates”. Amount: $ 1,000.00
• Jorge Mario Velasquez (Université de Montréal, supervisor: Roxane de la Sablonnière) : « Identité et bien-être des adultes latino-américains en couple immigrants à Montréal ». Amount: $ 1,000.00

Travel Grant

The CSDC awarded 35 Conference Travel Grants. Conference Travel Grants support students to make a presentation of original research results at a scholarly conference on a topic that is directly related to the research axes of the CSDC.

The major Canadian Political Science conference is the annual Canadian Political Science Association Conference (CPSA), was held this year in Vancouver. CSDC members and students presented 58 research papers, participated on 5 roundtable discussions and chaired 13 conference sessions. 23 of the CSDC Conference Travel Grants were awarded to students presenting at the CPSA 2019.